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July 25th, 1991...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Unbelievable"
by EMF

In the UK:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
by Bryan Adams
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Colorado River, The

(TIME Cover: July the 22nd, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 25th of July:

1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991


Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932-

for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers

France
Collège de France - Paris, France



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1991 (USA)



$1.01 
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1991

The Silence of the Lambs
directed by Jonathan Demme
with Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) and Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling)

Designed in 1991

The Älgskinnsfåtöljen
by Mats Theselius

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Rod Stewart & Rachel Hunter / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 608/609, July 11, 1991

 

 
 
 
     

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